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Lesson 1: Students learn what descriptions involve and learn how to sort and use a range of adjectives to describe an image's important features.

Lesson 2: Students learn how to use adjectives to describe people, and think about the specific effect that certain adjectives have on readers.

Lesson 3: Students learn what adverbs are, different types of adverbs, and practice using them when writing both descriptions and procedures.

Lesson 4: Students learn about how the five senses can be used in descriptions to add detail.

Lesson 5: Students learn about verbs and how specific verb choices can be used to describe events and actions.

Lesson 6: Students learn about types of nouns including proper, abstract, collective and common nouns, and practice both reading comprehension and creative writing.

Lesson 7: Students learn how to correctly use pronouns and continue to use the five senses to construct descriptions.

Lesson 8: Students learn about how to correctly use conjunctions, and continue to practice using the five senses to construct descriptions.

Lesson 9: Students complete their final assessment task for the term: describing a setting and describing a character.

Lesson 1: Students learn the basic structure of a narrative and what the purpose of creative writing is.

Lesson 2: Students learn about the role characters play in a story. They practice both reading comprehension and writing their own descriptions of characters.

Lesson 3: Students learn about the role settings play in a story. They practice both reading comprehension and writing their own descriptions of settings.

Lesson 4: Students learn about what complications are, completing both reading comprehension and creative writing tasks. They also learn about how to use prepositions.

Lesson 5: Students learn about how to correctly use verbs, prefixes and resolutions in their own creative writing.

Lesson 6: Students learn the key concept of "show not tell" and practice adding more description and detail to their writing, while continuing to practice reading comprehension.

Lesson 7: Students learn about homophones and continue to practice both reading comprehension and "show not tell."

Lesson 8: Students learn how to generate ideas for creative writing, and continue to practice reading comprehension.

Lesson 9: Students complete their final assessment task for the term: composing a complete narrative.

Lesson 1: Students learn what points of view are, practice reading comprehension and identifying perspectives, and learn about simple, compound and complex sentences.

Lesson 2: Students learn about how to interpret a character's feelings and motivations from a written passage, how to use techniques when presenting a speech to the class, and about the indefinite articles.

Lesson 3: Students learn about how to interpret a character's point of view, feelings and motivations, and how to correctly use different pronouns.

Lesson 4: Students learn the difference between facts and opinions, and how both are used in persuasive writing.

Lesson 5: Students learn about specific vocabulary words that can be used in persuasive writing, such as high modality language, and practice using the past, present and future tense.

Lesson 6: Students learn about language techniques that can be used in persuasive writing, such as rhetorical questions and repetition.

Lesson 7: Students learn about the structure of a persuasive introduction.

Lesson 8: Students learn how to write a structured, effective persuasive body paragraph, and how to use apostrophes correctly.

Lesson 9: Students complete their final assessment task for the term: a piece of persuasive writing.

Lesson 1: Students learn about how stories convey ideas about both people and places. They practice answering comprehension questions by using evidence from the text.

Lesson 2: Students learn about how characters and settings are described in stories. They practice both reading comprehension as well as creative writing, describing their own characters and settings using a range of techniques.

Lesson 3: Students learn about how stories can convey different viewpoints. They practice writing about the viewpoints used in a picture book text.

Lesson 4: Students practice writing creatively from a range of different viewpoints, and using techniques to show a character's perspective.

Lesson 5: Students learn how to make connections between a text and their own experiences, and practice both reading comprehension and visual literacy.

Lesson 6: Students learn about the "key messages" that texts can send, and practice planning and composing their own creative texts.

Lesson 7: Students learn about how stories can reflect other lives and cultures, and practice more complex reading comprehension and analysis skills.

Lesson 8: Students learn about how to create an informative piece of writing, and how to reflect on the value and purpose of the stories they have read this term.

Lesson 9: Students learn how to write persuasively about their own point of view.